The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later: ...

On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA. A year earlier, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, giving them an advantage in the ...

Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the Apollo 12 astronauts transported invaluable samples of moon back to Earth. Cade Martin It’s only the size of a suitcase, 8 by 19 by ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: "We are enormously ...